RH 7.2--Was surprised because I had 6.1 on a 2 gig and
had LOTS of space left for working space.
Joe
--- Carl Parrish <cparrish@cox.net> wrote:
> Which version of RH are you using? I have at least 3
> boxes here without
> KDE or Gnome on it and they are running fine. When I
> was installing my
> Router / Firewall I did find out that the min
> installation was *way*
> more than I would have wanted it (around 350MB) but
> since its a 2 gig
> Harddrive and I'm storing the log files on another
> machine I just let it
> slide. There are distro just for small installs (The
> Linux router
> project looks good). 
> 
> Carl Parrish
> www.carlparrish.com
> 
> On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 08:40, jtannenba wrote:
> > This was easy in Debian..Did base install and
> apt-get
> > the rest.  Mandrake and RH don't seem to like to 
> > install without KDE and Gnome stuff.  I left most
> of
> > it
> > off and still ran low on space.  WE DO want to be
> able
> > to use the system after it's installed right?
> > 
> > I agree that Mandrake and RH should have a 'base' 
> > install with an easy to use 'rpm get' type prog. 
> I 
> > haven't been able to get the MandrakeUpdateRobot
> to
> > work without seg faulting.
> > 
> > A base system without the Gnome and Kde stuff
> would
> > be fine.
> > 
> > Joe
> > --- Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> > > Sound more like your installs are bloated to me.
> 
> > > When you install your
> > > system, only pick the stuff you will actually be
> > > using and you will have an
> > > install that is only a couple to a few hundred
> megs.
> > > I've built servers with mandrake that were under
> 100
> > > megs, and with mandrake
> > > 8.2 you can have an install that is much smaller
> > > than before.
> > > 
> > > Ditch all those LDAP server and news server and
> > > video games that require 3D
> > > since you don't have the horse power to play
> them
> > > anyway... etc...etc..
> > > 
> > > Brian Cluff
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 
> > > > Noticed the last couple of installs, that at
> least
> > > > Mandrake and RH 7.2 are getting bloated.  I
> had
> > > > trouble fitting them to 2 gig drives.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know where a person could pick up
> > > around
> > > > two or three 6 to 8 gig IDE hard drives cheap?
> > > >
> > > > I have an old p166 that won't recognize
> anything
> > > over
> > > > around 8 gig.
> > > >
> > > > Off list would be fine.
> > > >
> > > > Joe
> > > > Jtannenba@yahoo.com
> > > >
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